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Radio, Citizenship, and the “Sound Standards” of a Newly Independent India

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Isabel Huacuja Alonso
Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 117–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7181862
Published: 01 January 2019
...Isabel Huacuja Alonso During his decade-long (1952–62) tenure as minister of Information and Broadcasting, B. V. Keskar spearheaded ambitious reforms to the national radio network, All India Radio. Keskar filled broadcasting hours with classical music programming, inviting musicians trained...
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Sangam: Signs of India

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Public Culture (1993) 6 (1): 195–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-1-195
Published: 01 January 1993
... Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Sangam: Signs of India Art by Nancy Sullivan Text by Arjun Appadurai Photos by Barry Pribula...
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Looking at Film Hoardings: Labour, Gender, Subjectivity and Everyday Life in India

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R. Srivatsan
Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-1-1
Published: 01 January 1991
... , V. , T. Niranjana, R. Srivatsan, and S. Tharu. Blame it on the victims. Illustrated Weekly of India ( Oct. 28 - Nov. 3, 1990 ), 42 -45. Hyderabad , Ekta Report on communal violence in Hyderabad during December 1990 . Olympus 12:1 (Hyderabad; January 1991). Mulvey , L. Visual...
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Internet X-Ray: E-Governance, Transparency, and the Politics of Immediation in India

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William Mazzarella
Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 473–505.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-016
Published: 01 September 2006
....html . Barthes, Roland. [1957] 1972 . Mythologies . New York: Hill and Wang. Bayly, C. A. 1996 . Empire and information: Intelligence gathering and social communication in India, 1780-1870 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bhatt, Sheela. 2001. Tehelka expose: Armymen bribed...
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“In the Name of Politics”: Democracy and the Power of the Multitude in India

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Dipesh Chakrabarty
Public Culture (2007) 19 (1): 35–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-024
Published: 01 January 2007
... in India Dipesh Chakrabarty The first of the great operations of discipline is [to] . . . transform the confused, useless or dangerous multitudes into ordered multiplicities...
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The Public Life of History: An Argument out of India

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Dipesh Chakrabarty
Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 143–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-020
Published: 01 January 2008
...Dipesh Chakrabarty Duke University Press 2008 The Public Life of History: An Argument out of India Dipesh Chakrabarty I should explain at the outset that by the expression “public life of history,” I do...
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Hegemonic Spatial Strategies: The Nation-Space and Hindu Communalism in Twentieth-Century India

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Satish Deshpande
Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 249–283.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-2-249
Published: 01 May 1998
.... Balachandran , G. 1996 . “Religion and Nationalism in Modern India.” In Basu and Subrahmanyam, 81 -128. Balibar , Etienne . 1991 . “The Nation Form: History and Ideology.” In Balibar and Wallerstein, 86 -106. Balibar , Etienne , and Immanuel Wallerstein. 1991 . Race, Nation, Class...
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Governance Interface: The Index in Modi's India

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Mila Samdub
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 473–493.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937382
Published: 01 September 2022
...Mila Samdub Abstract In Modi's India, a host of indices perform transparency, efficiency, and good governance but leave undeclared the political shifts they are bringing about. Dramatized in real-time dashboards, policy briefs, press reports, and social media posts, these technocratic numbers...
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Knocking at The Doors of Public Culture: India's Parallel Cinema

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Pradip Krishen
Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 25–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-1-25
Published: 01 January 1991
...Pradip Krishen Copyright © 1991 by the Center For Transnational Culture Studies 1991 The growth and development of the Parallel Cinema in India, oc- cmed in the period from the end of the 1960s to the present.1 Here I focus on the process by which a small, insignificant, highbrow...
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Figure 5. The November 15, 2016, cover of Down to Earth, India’s most popular environmental magazine, published by the Centre for Science and the Environment (CSE). With a caption declaring “To Let Citizens Die of Air Pollution Is Anti-national,” the image depicts the four lions of Sarnath, the national emblem of India, wearing air pollution masks. The central government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership since 2014 has carried out campaigns targeting a wide range of secular, leftist, and anticaste cultural practices and political expressions for being “antinational.” CSE here used the alarming image of the nation at risk of asphyxiation to redirect Modi’s language toward a more existential, material threat.

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Published: 01 January 2020
Figure 5 The November 15, 2016, cover of Down to Earth , India’s most popular environmental magazine, published by the Centre for Science and the Environment (CSE). With a caption declaring “To Let Citizens Die of Air Pollution Is Anti-national,” the image depicts the four lions of Sarnath More
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The Case of the Missing Mahatma: Gandhi and the Hindi Cinema

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Rachel Dwyer
Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 349–376.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1161949
Published: 01 May 2011
...Rachel Dwyer While Gandhi's image is well known in India and throughout the world, mostly in photographs, chromolithographs, and newsreels, there are surprisingly few Indian films about the father of the nation and his role in the national drama, the historic struggle for independence, perhaps...
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Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization

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Sareeta Amrute
Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 331–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841892
Published: 01 May 2015
...Sareeta Amrute This article discusses violence against women in cars in India, including the recent high-profile Delhi rape case, arguing that these cases should be set in the context of economic liberalization. The dynamic between women and their drivers should be understood as a labor...
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FIGURE 1 Circus company girls performing an acrobatic number, late 1960s. Courtesy of Kamala's photographic collection, Kerala, India.

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Published: 01 May 2021
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Of Cures and Curses: Toward a Critique of Curative Reason

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Bharat Jayram Venkat
Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 277–282.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4310918
Published: 01 May 2018
... on tuberculosis in India, he identifies the consequences of a widely shared investment in cure’s finality—what he calls, after Mircea Eliade, a vision of “radical cure.” Such an investment threatens to foreclose our recognition of the limits of cure, as well as curtail our willingness to conceive of other...
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Meritocracy and Democracy: Indian Reservations and the Politics of Caste

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Ajantha Subramanian
Public Culture (2019) 31 (2): 275–288.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7286825
Published: 01 May 2019
...Ajantha Subramanian From 1951 to 2008, India moved toward an embrace of caste quotas, or reservations, as a necessary mechanism of recompense and redistribution. At the same time, the focus on the appropriate criteria for determining “backwardness” left largely unaddressed the social bases...
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Frontier Heritage Migration in the Global Ethnic Economy

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Melissa Tandiwe Myambo
Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 261–285.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3749057
Published: 01 May 2017
...Melissa Tandiwe Myambo South Africa, China, India, and other industrializing countries are receiving increasing numbers of frontier heritage migrants—those who were raised in “First World” countries like the United States and who are now moving to their ancestral ethnic homelands. The primary aim...
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Dalit in Black America: Race, Caste, and the Making of Dalit-Black Archives

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Suraj Yengde
Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 21–41.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10202374
Published: 01 January 2023
...Suraj Yengde Abstract This article theorizes the gravitas of historical solidarity through a budding Dalit-Black archive. It looks at intersections of race and caste projects within the African American public sphere through an anchoring lens of concern for Dalits in India. The Black universalist...
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“Hindustan Is a Dream”: Urdu Poetry and the Political Theology of Intimacy

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Anand Vivek Taneja
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 71–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435456
Published: 01 January 2022
...Anand Vivek Taneja Abstract In a time of dominant Hindu nationalism and rising Islamophobia in India, Urdu poetry is the medium in which an alternative political theology finds popular articulation, questioning the “normative horizon” of the nation-state. The political theology being articulated...
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Childhood Memories of Circus Children

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Éléonore Rimbault
Public Culture (2021) 33 (2 (94)): 261–275.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8917220
Published: 01 May 2021
...figure 1 Circus company girls performing an acrobatic number, late 1960s. Courtesy of Kamala's photographic collection, Kerala, India. ...
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Bulldozers in the City Economies of Excess and Repair

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Sushmita Pati
Public Culture 11767244.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11767244
Published: 19 March 2025
... through construction and demolition and by being in circulation. By looking more closely at the history of the machine globally and in India, its deployment at sites of demolitions, and its end point in Delhi’s scrap markets, this article uncovers the diverse relationship the machine has with the city...
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